She wasn’t mocking anyone. She read a review of comics that feature strong female protagonists that mentioned Girl Genius but not Digger and was surprised that someone who enjoys comics about strong female protagonists and fantastical settings hadn’t heard of Digger. I dunno how many comics there are where those two aspects overlap, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a relatively small niche anyway.
Little Nemo, unless you specifically look for webcomics about female protagonists in fantastical settings, your ignorance of the comic is not unexpected and not what Silver Tyger is talking about.
Considering the comic is finished, getting 5000 people in a month is remarkable. There are a HUGE number of comics - at least hundreds of thousands.For another point of view, on TopWebComics.com, Digger is #265 (of 2601 comics). On TheWebComicList.com its #1565 (of over 19100). For a comic that finished in March.
But we could talk webcomics all day. How about we get back to things you’re surprised people haven’t heard of?
Nothing surprises me when people haven’t heard of it. It’s my belief (and I’ve said it before on these boards) that Superman is the only universal reference. Everything else has to fight for recognition.
And not for nothing, but if Digger is finished, why would a comic writer be expected to remember it or include it in an article of recommended comics? Wouldn’t they want something current?
That is a good point (I did say not to point out the logic there in the OP). Part of the impetus for the article was Marvel cancelling X-23 and some other female lead comic, so… I don’t remember where I was going with that.
But Digger is awesome! And should be read!
I’m really trying to remember something that’s actually on topic, but unfortunately I have strange interests and thus am not surprised when people don’t know things I like.
Oh! My mom took music to work. The young lady (in her 30s) who shares an office with her hadn’t heard bubblegum pop before, which surprised my mom (but not me - as awesome as bubblegum is, it’s a very small genre.)
I know what a a bieber is now but he was really famous before I bothered to look it up and that was just because someone was amazed that I didn’t know what one was. The same is true for the people of the Kardasian tribe and Lady Gaga. There are probably some people that have been really famous for a year or two that I wouldn’t know. Pop culture isn’t really my thing. I alternate between living in the 1990’s, the 1890’s, and the 1930’s for my pop culture awareness. I wasn’t one of the survivors of the Y2K conversion culturally speaking.
I was somewhat surprised last year when visiting my brother in Brighton (hardly known as a cultural backwater); I mentioned something about the hippy who was trying to sell dal in the park near where I lived. He claimed he’d never heard of dal, even after I’d given him a description of it, and seemed a little confused that I’d expect him to know what it was.
We were, at the time, in his favourite local restaurant. An Indian restaurant. :smack:
A neighbour of mine didn’t know what cous-cous was. It’s not uncommon in England - it’s not usually in a specialist or ethnic food aisle - and she was in her thirties. But then, she also didn’t know the word fickle and teased me about using unusual words. Thing is, in some other ways she was intelligent - not the sort of person you’d expect to lack basic knowledge.
I have never heard of dal. From your first mention of it (“the hippy who was trying to sell dal in the park”) I would have thought it was some type of illegal drug.
In the conversation, I mentioned the fact that he was trying to bum plates off the local cafes on which to serve it… And it was all cold and congealed.
It’s a common food here- as I pointed out at the time, there were several different dals on the menu in the place we were in at the time.
My friends and I always play Who am I whenever we’re in the car or waiting for something. Having done this for years, we’re pretty advanced now We’ve seen Deep Blue, Schrodingers Cat, the works. Recently, one friend brought over a new girlfriend. Really lovely girl, biologist, very intelligent. In the car, we played the game and to ease her in we thought we’d give her an easy one: Justin Bieber. Never heard of him. Of course, we all felt bad, so for the next one we carefully discussed a really, really easy one absolutely every person on earth would know: Julius Ceasar. Never heard of him.
I’m coming to the point where I’m no longer surprised. A guy I work with asked me the other day what the difference is between a cow and a goat.
YOU were in the car? YOU heard this? Not FOAF? Because I find it challenging to believe that a “biologist, very intelligent” would have never heard of either of these people. Bieber is reasonable, Caesar is not reasonable, but neither is damn near inconceivable.
Absolutely, 100% true story, I was there and heard it. She said it was because she grew up in Africa (several countries, German parents) and they taught less European history there. At this point I didn’t want to point out Ceasar’s relevance to African history, we all felt pretty bad for her.
She was genuinely intelligent, and could hold a good conversation about african politics and biology, other than that I never got to find out because they broke up. We still joke about her whenever new people join the game, they always get Julius Ceasar as a test now.
We’ve seen Deep Blue, Schrodingers Cat, the works. Recently, one friend brought over a new girlfriend. Really lovely girl, biologist, very intelligent. In the car, we played the game and to ease her in we thought we’d give her an easy one: Justin Bieber. Never heard of him. Of course, we all felt bad, so for the next one we carefully discussed a really, really easy one absolutely every person on earth would know: Julius Ceasar. Never heard of him.